The debate over 340B’s purpose recently spilled over into a Boston newspaper and nationally.
In a March 30 op-ed in the Boston Herald, Peter Pitts, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official under President George W. Bush
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Twenty four large health systems with hospitals in the 340B program yesterday sent U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra eight recommendations “to stabilize this program for the long-term” that he could implement without involving Congress.
The coalition,
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Andrea Palm, President Biden’s pick to be the number two official at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS), pledged during her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing this morning to make sure that the 340B program “is working as it
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The bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee and its Health Subcommittee wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra this week asking him to enforce “full compliance” with the Trump administration’s hospital
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News this week that sexually transmitted disease (STD) reported cases in the U.S. reached all-time highs for the sixth straight year shows why STD clinic access to 340B drug discounts is vital, state and local STD program directors say.
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340B health care providers are hopeful that U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra will sanction six drug manufacturers that have either stopped providing 340B discounts or placed restrictions on 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting, 340B Report Publisher and CEO
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Drug manufacturer United Therapeutics on Monday launched phase two of its restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy, telling covered entities what they must do to keep getting 340B pricing from the company on its drugs when dispensed by the entities’ retail
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday morning on President Biden’s nominations of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to run the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Andrea Palm to be U.S. Health and Human Services
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Congressional Medicaid policy advisers voted Friday to recommend raising the Medicaid rebate percentage and inflation penalty on drugs that are quickly and conditionally approved to treat serious conditions that fill an unmet need.
If Congress follows the Medicaid and CHIP
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Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts (ESI) told a hospital group and an HIV/AIDS clinic in recent days that it has “already granted numerous pharmacies extensions” to its controversial new 340B claims identification requirement that went into effect March 1.
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